Home›Scripture and Founding Text›TraditionBrowse ByTraditionThis page groups literary works by the religion that treats them as authoritative. Wikipedia notes that "within each religion, these texts are revered as authoritative sources of guidance, wisdom, and divine revelation." Browsing by tradition lets a visitor read every work revered by the same religion together.FactsTraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedLiterary Works 1TraditionFilter Results21 entriesAdherents Today MaximumAll40,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll40,000 (1)Basis of the Education Facility CountAllThe Body's Own Published Statistics (1)Basis of the Humanitarian Aid FigureAllThe Body's Own Published Statistics (2)Basis of the Membership FigureAllChurch-Reported Rolls (8)Independent Survey (2)National Census (1)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (7)Church FamilyAllLatter Day Saint (1)New Thought (1)Reformed (1)Date of Separation End YearAll1876 (1)1968 (1)1971 (1)1974 (1)1975 (1)1980 (1)Date of Separation Start YearAll1873 (1)1935 (1)1963 (1)1971 (1)1973 (1)1975 (1)1979 (1)Defining Doctrinal PositionAllA divine pleroma above a flawed creator, with salvation through gnosis of a fallen divine spark (1)A Goddess and a God as a divine pair (1)An impersonal universal Mind or Principle reached through directed thought, not petition (1)Chalcedonian: two natures in the one person of Christ (Chalcedon, 451) (1)Ethical practice held prior to and independent of theological agreement (1)Ethics grounded in reason and human experience, without the supernatural (3)Ethics grounded in reason and human experience, without the supernatural (1)Halakha informative rather than binding on the individual (1)Initiation into the Khalsa and its rahit as normative (1)Judaism as an evolving religious civilisation, God reconceived naturalistically (2)Mendicants wear white cloth (1)No fixed pantheon or liturgy; each practitioner composes their own (1)No fixed pantheon or liturgy; each practitioner composes their own (1)Perfectionist (1)Restorationist: holds the apostolic church to have been lost and restored (1)Revealed scriptures and inner visualisation (1)Satan as a symbol, not a being (1)Satan or Set held to be a real being (2)The Agama canon accepted as authentically preserved (1)The Goddess alone (1)The written Torah alone; the rabbinic Oral Torah not accepted (1)Trinitarian: one God in three persons (1)Women may attain liberation from a woman's birth (1)Education Facility Count As OfAll1878-12-31 (1)GovernanceAllA federation of autonomous member organisations (5)A single central governing body over the whole movement (4)Authority in a living teacher and their succession (1)Autonomous covens, authority conferred by initiation (1)Business decided by the gathered meeting seeking unity, without clergy (2)Congregational: each congregation self-governing (2)Delegated representation from congregations up to a general conference (2)No central authority (4)Presbyterian: governed by elders in graded courts (1)Priestly office passing by descent (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCustomary Norm (2)Obligation to Support, No Set Rate (2)Humanitarian Aid Figure As OfAll1877-12-31 (1)2021-12-31 (1)2022-12-31 (1)Liturgical LanguageAllArdhamagadhi Prakrit (1)Classical Chinese (read in Sino-Japanese where used in Japan) (1)Geez (1)Hebrew (1)Punjabi in Gurmukhi script (1)Sanskrit (1)The vernacular (13)Membership Figure As OfAll1848-01-01 (1)1850-02-01 (1)1852-01-01 (1)1856-07-05 (1)1878-01-01 (1)1930-01-01 (1)1970-01-01 (1)1971-01-01 (1)1975-01-01 (1)1981-01-01 (1)1985-01-01 (1)1991-05-25 (1)1994-01-01 (1)1998-01-01 (1)1999-01-01 (2)2004-01-01 (1)2005-01-01 (1)2010-12-01 (1)2013-01-01 (1)2013-10-01 (1)2020-01-01 (1)2022-12-31 (1)2024-01-01 (1)2024-12-31 (1)2026-08-16 (1)OrdinationAllAn unpaid lay ministry rather than a professional clergy (1)Authority conferred by initiation rather than by ordination (5)Conferred by a teacher's certification of learning (1)No ordination; authority rests on learning or on the whole body (5)Open to women and men (10)Ordination is into a monastic order, not to a congregation (2)Restricted to men (1)Restricted to women (1)Origin Period End YearAll370 (1)400 (1)1571 (1)1600 (1)1699 (1)1760 (1)1844 (1)1848 (1)1876 (1)1889 (1)1941 (1)1952 (1)1963 (1)1966 (1)1968 (1)1971 (1)1974 (1)1975 (1)1980 (2)Origin Period Start YearAll364 (1)1300 (1)1571 (1)1699 (1)1760 (1)1844 (1)1848 (1)1876 (1)1889 (1)1922 (1)1930 (1)1941 (1)1952 (1)1963 (1)1966 (1)1971 (1)1973 (1)1974 (1)1975 (1)1979 (1)Position on JustificationAllFaith Alone (1)Position on PredestinationAllDouble Predestination (1)Position on SexualityAllSame-sex marriage is performed and LGBT clergy are ordained on equal terms with heterosexual clergy (7)Same-sex orientation or practice is held to bar full membership or participation (1)Position on the EucharistAllSpiritual Reception by Faith (1)Principle of WorshipAllRegulative (1)Relation to the StateAllNo Establishment (5)Privileged Never Established (1)Sacraments RecognisedAllTwo (1)Standing as a Comparative CategoryAllA standard analytic category in the study of religion (1)Standing of Holy OrdersAllMinistry by Lawful Call (1)Status TodayAllDissolved; the community wound itself up (2)Historical; not practised continuously (2)Living tradition, practised today (18)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAmerican Humanist AssociationTradition1 entryBeta IsraelTradition1 entryThe Church of Jesus Christ (Strangite)Tradition1 entryChurch of SatanTradition1 entryDianic WiccaTradition1 entryDutch Reformed ChurchTradition1 entryEthical CultureTradition1 entryHumanistic JudaismTradition1 entryHumanists InternationalTradition1 entryKhalsaTradition1 entryOneida CommunityTradition1 entryOrder of Nine AnglesTradition1 entryReclaimingTradition1 entryReconstructionist JudaismTradition1 entrySeax-WicaTradition1 entrySeicho-no-IeTradition1 entrySethianismTradition1 entryShangqing (Highest Clarity)Tradition1 entryTemple of SetTradition1 entryTerapanthTradition1 entryUnity (Unity School of Christianity)Tradition1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category TreeComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.